![]() One really cool feature is a visualizer in both the compact interface as well as full-screen with pretty cool visual effects in time with the music. It leverages the API to provide a volume boost with 15 levels of adjustment, 12 settings for bass boost and 12 settings for sound virtualization as well as a five channel equalizer (60 Hz, 230 Hz, 910 Hz, 3.6 kHz and 14 kHz) is a spiffy "mini" ui that acts like a floating window. Don't be fooled by the name, because Bass EQ is more than just a bass booster. Once installed on your phone, you see it listed as Bass EQ. If you don't like it, then try something else - but be sure to disable what's there because only one app can apply effects to one audio stream at a time. If you already have an equalizer or audio effects settings, save yourself the hassle and use what you have. That's OK if you're using an older version of Android that lets an app adjust the sound mix globally, but not an efficient use of resources if you're using something running KitKat or newer. ![]() Some of the worst offenders that didn't make my list also want to try and start at boot, and keep running forever - even when the audio effects aren't active. The app is already running, so you'll not have anything adding overhead or latency to the audio stream, and you'll not need to use up any space by installing another app. If your music player app has it's own equalizer - like Google Play Music or PowerAmp - it will give you the same exact results as anything you can download. If your music player has an equalizer in the settings, use it The HTC 10 (for example) has a much better surround virtualizer built in than anything you can download and install, and it's worth trying what you already have before you try anything else. If your phone has anything like this, use those options first. They aren't restricted to use the same API, and often have companies like JBL or Harmon Kardon help them tune the audio output. And plenty of music apps have a built-in equalizer in their settings.īuilt-in audio effects from the folks who built your phone can and will do more to the sound than any app you install from Google Play, because of the things we talked about above. Some companies that build Android phones have their own audio enhancements built into the settings. That leaves us with three apps, because I'm just not going to point you at apps that I wouldn't install myself. Then I deleted all the apps with horrible ads that capture your screen and make you watch 10 seconds or so of some shitty game you never wanted to install anytime you move between screens or apply changes. I then deleted all the apps that did bad things like try to trick you into installing other apps with vague wording and promises of a new version. I deleted all the apps that crash and burn on Marshmallow. I started by installing the 20 equalizer apps with the highest rating in Google Play. That's because these are the three that don't suck suck the least. ![]() But that still doesn't explain why I only picked three apps from a list of a hundred or more in Google Play. Try Hiby Music app as it works really well on Android.Basically, every equalizer app you install does the same thing as the rest - moving a slider does the same thing, enabling Bass Boost does the same thing, and what matters is how easy it is to do it all. I have not tried UAPP which can also be pretty good. I guess if you are altering mids and highs any EQ will be fine, but for low end you need a properly implemented EQ. The DAPs were nice, good features, clean background with good sound but their EQs are bad for low end. You can get good results on PC with some proper EQ programs and Foobar2000 and such, but I do not listen on PC that much.įor reference I have had: Shanling M2s, Shanling UP, Shanling Sonata HD Dragonfly Red, Hiby R3, Hiby R3 Pro, Hiby R2. But with this EQ and Bass boost feature I have gotten the BEST, cleanest, deepest low end out of all music devices that I tried. This phone is no audiophile device, the 3.5mm output is not clean, it has noise/hiss, not a black background. The best one I have found is an Android app DSP manager from Cyanogen mod on a rooted Galaxy Nexus i9250 and Qudelix 5K being a close second. Most implementations are pure trash imo, even on DAPs, when EQing bass/lows. ![]()
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